After a month long dryspell and being out of town too much, i finally came up with an idea that would keep me going on for a few weeks. Thanks to Janet Jackson's "Runaway" song and video, as well as, Steve McCurry's Photography, "Around The World: A Series of Portraits" is born! This series would give me the opportunity to use all those Clothing, Props, Characters etc gathering dust in my harddrive. I finally will get the chance to play with them all! So, as your purser for this journey, I ask you all to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. :) Our first stop is southern Kenya, home of the Maasai people. The Maasai are pastoralist and have resisted the urging of the Tanzanian and Kenyan governments to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. They have demanded grazing rights to many of the national parks in both countries and routinely ignore international boundaries as they move their great cattle herds across the open savanna with the changing of the seasons. This resistance has led to a romanticizing of the Maasai way of life that paints them as living at peace with nature. They are best known for their beautiful beadwork which plays an essential element in the ornamentation of the body. Beading patterns are determined by each age-set and identify grades. Young men, who often cover their bodies in ocher to enhance their appearance, may spend hours and days working on ornate hairstyles, which are ritually shaved as they pass into the next age-grade. source: www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Maasai.html ----- CREDITS DAZ Millennium Girl Masaai Girl by Lynne DAZ Multiplane Cyclorama DAZ Dungeon Lights